#the truth

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ↗

— George Orwell

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In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. ↗

— George Orwell

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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God. ↗

— Ramakrishna

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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about me, and said that people would say that it was just for the money, and it wasn't about the money. It was about what he did to me. And I knew I was telling the truth. ↗

— Paula Jones

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Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#both sides #caught #ever #good #hand

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#feel #got #i #i feel #i feel like

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

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